Hey Morbidology listeners, before we get on with today's episode could I please request that you don't judge

morbidology on the early episodes. I'd recommend maybe listening from the new ones backwards

because I honestly didn't find my feet in

podcasting for quite some time. The quality of the early episodes as well as the

hosting is not a true representation of morbidology today and I'm currently in the process of redoing them all.

If you do listen to the earlier episodes please don't judge the show on them and maybe give a newer

one a listen before deciding if the show is for you.

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an oil with the show. Oh, yeah. Welcome to Morburogy, the podcast. I'm your host Emily G Thompson,

author of Unsolve Child Murders and co-author of Unsolved Murders True Crime Cases Uncovered. Over a 16 month period beginning in the spring of 1971, an elusive killer targeted young African American girls in Washington, D.C.

Considering the fact that the killer disposed of the bodies near busy freeways in both the District of Columbia and in Prince, he was dubbed the Freeway Phantom.

To Washington, D.C., he was what the Strangler was to Boston and the Zodiac was to San Francisco.

As a matter of fact, the Freeway Phantom Murders were the first serial killings in Washington.

The flagrant killings came at a time of racial turmoil and unrest

brought on by the assassination of Martin Luther King on the 4th of April, 1968.

Good evening, Dr. Martin Luther King,

the apostle of nonviolence in the civil rights movement

has been shot to death in Memphis, Tennessee.

Place have issued an all-points bulletin for a well-dressed young white man seen running from the scene.

Officers also reportedly chased and fired on a radio-equipped car containing two white men.

Dr King was standing on the balcony of a second floor hotel room

tonight when, according to an companion, a shot was fired from across the street. In the friend's words, the bullet exploded in his face.

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